The New Earthquake Country

Before Planet X, aka Nibiru, entered the inner solar system, California was the only state in the Union synonymous with earthquake activity. Nowhere in the U.S. were you more likely to experience an earthquake than in the state of California.

Not anymore.

Within only the last few years, residents of Oklahoma and Texas have been jarred by an alarming uptick in seismic activity, ushering in a new landscape of "earthquake country" in the United States.

OKLAHOMA

From 1975 to 2008, only a handful of quakes over magnitude 3.0 were recorded in the state of Oklahoma. That number skyrocketed to over 200 since 2009. And in 2013 — the state's most seismically active year on record — there were nearly 3,000 quakes in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma's strongest recorded earthquake was a 5.6-magnitude that struck in November 2011 near the town of Prague. It damaged 200 buildings and rattled parts of seven states.

Chad Devereaux cleans up bricks that fell from a home in Sparks, Oklahoma in November 2011 after two earthquakes hit the area in less than 24 hours.

In addition to the increase in rumblings often accompanied by loud booms, a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey suggests earthquakes in Oklahoma will not be going away anytime soon. As a result, the Oklahoma insurance commissioner is urging residents to buy insurance policies that include earthquake coverage while Oklahoma emergency management officials are utilizing earthquake safety manuals that originated in California.

While the USGS is prohibited from divulging the actual cause of this sudden increase in seismicity, aka Nibiru, they instead support the preposterous notion that mining practices involving hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" are at cause. The USGS is even developing a separate earthquake map for these so-called "man-made" quakes.

"Fracking has been a process used extensively for decades, since 1903 within the US alone. If fracking caused earthquakes, has this just been noticed? This is clearly an excuse for the increase in earthquakes, one of many the establishment will latch onto as earthquake frequency increases and earthquakes occur in unusual places.

Where it is known that mining accidents, explosions, can cause buildings in the vicinity to shake and windows to rattle, such activity on the surface does not cause earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by an adjustment in the entire rock strata, over a wide and deep area. The epicenter is merely the point where the adjustment, or movement, is greatest. The pressure that caused that adjustment spreads for hundreds of miles, in all directions. Fracking cannot accomplish this."

"I have cracks in every floor of my house," a woman who lives off Knob Hill Road said. "And I don't mean just cracks going across. They come and meet in the middle."

Even seasoned earthquake veterans from California said the quakes in recent months are different than anything they felt before.

Now, even North Texas residents are considering earthquake insurance.

Town Hall Meeting

Offered only the fracking explanation for dozens of recent earthquakes in the area, Azle residents voiced their frustration at the oil and gas industry at a recent town hall meeting.

More than 800 North Texas residents showed up on Thursday, January 2, demanding answers from the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the local oil and gas industry.

Many of the attendees described the damage to their properties, from cracked walls, to shifting foundations and driveways, to shattered mirrors.

Others described their fear of stronger seismic activity to come, the fear of what the shifting ground could do to a gas line, the fear of sinkholes and contamination of the groundwater supply.

The mood soured when Commissioner David Porter announced that he would not be answering questions. There was booing and hooting.

‘Something is going on. Stop drilling and see what happens,’ said Victoria Ball of Azle, a recommendation that drew applause and cheers from the audience.

Reno Mayor Lynda Stokes and others pleaded with state regulators to stop the injection wells, at least for a few months, to see if the earthquakes stop. Residents come to Stokes asking questions but not even Reno City Hall is immune as there's a big crack in the council chambers.

"I don't have any answers for them," she said. "The only power the city has is not to issue any more permits."

"The primary drama preceding the pole shift will be the ripping action that a plate unable to move must endure. The notable area of catastrophe during this is the eastern half of the continental US. From Houston to Chicago to New England, the diagonal pull will tear the underpinning of cities and create a catastrophe for the US that will make the New Orleans disaster appear trivial."

A very unusual seismic phenomenon is currently taking place in Nebraska. There were 4 earthquakes in central Nebraska on April 9th and 10th. The first one, with a magnitude of 3.3 shook near Arnold, Nebraska Monday morning, at 4:33. The next quake held off until Tuesday morning, starting at 6:41, hitting with a magnitude of 3.7. Just over 10 minutes later, a weaker 2.5 magnitude earthquake struck nearby. Later in the morning, a 3.3 magnitude earthquake hit in the same general area at 10:49.

The magnitude 3.6 earthquake was centered around Caruthersville along the New Madrid fault. It happened shortly before 11 a.m. The New Madrid fault zone area is still the most active east of the Rockies.

A smaller earthquake rocked the southeast Missouri town of Ironton Monday. That magnitude earthquake registered as 2.30. It hit around 12:30 p.m.

The red and orange areas show the epicenters of the 42 earthquakes that occurred Saturday night and early Sunday morning in Southeast Idaho

The strongest earthquake to hit the region in years as well as 41 smaller quakes occurred from Saturday night to early Sunday morning in Southeast Idaho, startling tens of thousands of residents.

Authorities said it did not appear that the quakes caused any injuries to people or damage to structures

The quakes were felt in Caribou County, where they all occurred, as well as in cities in northern Utah and throughout Southeast Idaho.

Bannock County Sheriff Lorin Nielsen said he's been a law enforcement officer in Southeast Idaho for over 40 years and during that time there's never previously been so many earthquakes occurring on one night. He said at the most there have been up to three earthquakes that have occurred in short succession along the East Idaho-Western Wyoming border. The 40-plus earthquakes that occurred from Saturday night to early Sunday morning are unprecedented, the sheriff said.

"I've never seen anything like this," Nielsen said. "My wife asked if we should leave the house." CONTINUE...

Up to 50 buildings sustained substantial damage after a 5.0 magnitude quake struck near Cushing, Oklahoma on Sunday.

The third quake in Oklahoma this year measuring 5.0 or greater, damage included cracks to buildings and fallen bricks and facades.

Fearing aftershocks, police cordoned off parts of the city, an assisted living community had been evacuated after damage was reported, and the Cushing Public School District cancelled Monday classes.

The quake struck at 7:44 p.m. Sunday and was felt as far away as Iowa, Illinois and Texas. The U.S. Geological Survey initially said Sunday’s quake was of magnitude 5.3 but later lowered the reading to 5.0.

“I thought my whole trailer was going to tip over, it was shaking it so bad,” said Cushing resident Cindy Roe, 50. “It was loud and all the lights went out and you could hear things falling on the ground.

“It was awful and I don’t want to have another one.”

Megan Gustafson and Jonathan Gillespie were working at a Cushing McDonald’s when the quake hit.

“It felt like a train was going right through the building, actually,” Gustafson, 17, said Sunday night as she and her co-workers stood behind a police barricade downtown, looking for damage. “I kind of freaked out and was hyperventilating a bit.”

“I was at home doing some work in my office and, basically, you could feel the whole house sway some,” Spears, the Cushing city manager, said Sunday night. “It’s beginning to become normal.”

It was an active week for earthquakes in Kansas, with eight recorded in Harper County and two in Sumner County.

The Harper County quakes included a number detectable through ground shaking centered about 11 miles east of Anthony, halfway between Freeport and Bluff City.

The largest was a magnitude 3.5, recorded about 8:25 a.m. Monday. A resident in Argonia, located some 10 miles northeast of the epicenter, reported light shaking from the quake, but no damage. Five other residents in the region reported on the U.S. Geological Survey website they experienced weak shaking.

A magnitude 2.8 then occurred about 25 minutes later, a mile farther west, the USGS data showed. In all, there were six quakes USGS monitors recorded within about four square miles.

Both Sumner County quakes, in the far southwest corner of the county, were below magnitude 2.0.

Oklahoma recorded 10 earthquakes within 150 miles of Kansas, out of two dozen statewide. Those included six that were above a magnitude 3.0.

The largest was a magnitude 4.0 centered in an area about 10 miles southeast of Waynoka, Oklahoma, a region that’s been active all year. Close to 50 people, including 19 in Wichita and one in Hutchinson, reported feeling weak shaking from the event.

It was just one of four quakes in a tight cluster there, including a magnitude 3.7 just 21 minutes after the larger one.Woods, Major and Garfield counties in Oklahoma also had quakes above 3.0.

[Testimony] Received from Enid (56 km from epicenter) after the M3.6 #earthquake in #Oklahoma :

"Pets started shaking and jumped into our laps. My little ornamental tree with loose hanging leaves stared shaking and shook for 10-15 seconds. The leaves on this tree work as my quake detector and never lets one get past me if it is even a little close to the epicenter."